Straw petition - eliminated straws in the cafeteria
"Get Caught Being Green"
Fundraising Campaigns for the Environment
Pajamas for the Planet raised awareness and money for Team Trees, a YouTuber initiative to plant 1 million trees by January 1, 2020. Students paid $1 to wear pajamas. Money raised went to the Arbor Day Foundation.
Bracelets for Bushfires raised awareness and money for an organization helping to rescue animals injured in the 2019-2020 bushfires in Australia.
Note: Campaigns such as these not only raise money for environmental causes, they also raise awareness and buy-in from students and staff around environmental causes and the impact individuals and groups can have on these causes.
Environmental Education
Partnership with ChesPax on field trips and classroom instruction on topics such as SAV, mosquito fish, oysters and owl pellet dissection.
The Green Team received training from two Chesapeake Bay Foundation island educators on the Chesapeake Bay watershed and the human impact on the bay.
Art classes have done environmental projects such as recycled stencil art and a tree tile mosaic.
Schoolyard Pollinator Garden and Blue Bird Trail
Courtyard - weeded and mulched center circle. Planted pollinators to attract butterflies and bees.
Blue Bird Trail - repaired and prepared blue bird houses for spring nesting. Replaced two missing blue bird houses from trail.
Technology to reduce paper usage
1 to 1 laptops implemented 2018
Implementation and school wide usage of Schoology.